re: An objective look at Ensminger’s offense

Welcome to the club. I have been screaming this for a long time.

When we played Fla and Bama it was worse than yesterday.

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UCF was far from a “vaunted” front 7 and we missed assignments up front in the run game almost on every play. Deculus misses bad on run plays and there are more than a few where he doesn’t touch a soul. We attach, and then they shed our blocks with ease

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this is very disconcerting. I am beginning to question our OL coach.

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There are VERY few plays where we protect with 5 and a RB and someone doesn’t completely whiff on a block. Not outnumbered, but completely whiffed on even numbers

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this is also very troublesome. tho I think our OL did improve on pass protect most of this game.

what doesn't seem right about our OL this year is that once we settled down and didn't have to play musical chairs we really didn't improve much. UCF was not a SEC quality DL.

one has to ask "why"? all of these guys are ranked high enough to have better results than they are giving. while they should improve next year missing assignments in the run game consistently just doesn't hack it.

I damn sure hope that youth and experience are our only problems and it's not coaching or talent

It works when the wide recievers don't drop passes that hit them in the hands. Whodathunkit!?

OL was bad
Green QB to start year (will only get better)
Below average RB stable (LSU standards)
Very little usage of the TE position


Next year gonna ball out!
We'll have TE's
Same or better OL
Better RB stable
Seasoned QB

You really expect us to believe we couldn't run a scheme to make the OL look ok against Southeastern? We were just that untalented?

If we're being objecticve, can we agree that E's offense has a poor track record against competent defenses? No need to rehash all the reasons--it just hasn't been very good. I can't believe that because we were able to move the ball against UCF(we still stalled in the red zone repeatedly) that people think all is well on that side of the ball.

Even against UCF, we had many chances to put the game away, and the offense came up short every time. Same thing against the Aggies, both in regulation and OT. By any measure, we have a below average offense. That should be unacceptable for a program like ours.

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Exactly. Our Oline is by far the limiting factor to the entire team

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It's time for a new S&C coach. Past time. Our guys get physically dominated by smaller guys

I agree, the tackles seem more fit to play guard. Neither tackle has prototypical traits of a good tackle much less a great one. I also agree about the RPO'S and need to run more bubble/slip screens. I'd like to see the slants/drags but the times I saw them try to cut players they did a bad job of it.
I'm critical of SE when he calls plays on his own 5 (play action from under center against Bama) and gets Burrow rocked. They should be in shotgun 99% of the time against Bama, so Burrow can see the pressure coming at him better. I thought the playcall on the pick six in the bowl game was bad also, especially the route choice there(very susceptible to the pick six). Another RZ INT by Burrow was another bad route choice/playcall with Dee Anderson (6'6") running out route in end zone from the 5-6 yard line, should have ran fade or slant to use his size advantage.

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The Levee

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Why do you want to bash players?


I've been critical of the offensive line. I've said that it's shortcomings severely limit what Steve can do offensively. People complain about scheme but how do you know what scheme E wants to run if he can't run it due to personnel playing out of place or lack of depth.

The quick fix us more talent at RB

We ended the year with almost 2900 passing yards